India's spacecraft enters lunar orbit: officials

November 8, 2008 India's spacecraft enters lunar orbit: officials

Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft

India's first unmanned spacecraft entered lunar orbit Saturday, 18 days after an Indian-built rocket transported it into outer space, officials here announced.

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